Section 9 On Martial Arts (4)
Li Xu flipped through the "Thirteen Taibao Horizontal Practice Golden Bell Jar" for a while, although he continued to study the mystery of the cardinal Wanhua to see if he could find other martial arts cheats and treasures. But he couldn't figure out if Yufu Guo would use any magical means to stare at him. After all, this person can transmit sound for thousands of miles with ease, who knows if he will have any secret means of remote sensing. If he can activate the Wanhua Cardinal, find out some divine weapon from it, prolong his life, and then let Yu Fuguo know, Li Xu can't guarantee that he will become the old eunuch's unboxing tool.
So the emperor had to be patient and continue to read "The Thirteen Taibao Horizontal Practice Golden Bell Jar" for a while. Mr. Qing, who pioneered this martial arts, not only summarized the posture of practicing and the direction of true qi on the plate, but also concisely expounded his martial arts thoughts in the text behind the plate.
However, most of the Buddhist martial arts come from Tianzhu, and a very small number are created or adapted by the monks of the Central Plains, all in all, they are from the Tianzhu doctrine. Naturally, there are many differences between Tianzhu's doctrine and the knowledge of Middle-earth. For example, the Central Plains thought that the human body has eight meridians and twelve meridians. Tianzhu's understanding of the human body is different from the Central Plains theory, they believe that the human body has three veins and seven chakras. Since the understanding of the human body is different, the methods and routes of true qi cultivation are naturally even different.
Then Buddhism came from Tianzhu to Middle Earth, after nearly a thousand years of integration with the Central Plains martial arts, it gradually penetrated with the Central Plains martial arts twelve canons, the eight veins of the strange scriptures, but the theoretical basis of each other's origin is different, and there are naturally some differences between each other. Therefore, the more advanced the Buddhist martial arts, the deeper the gap between it and the Central Plains Kung Fu.
"Golden Bell Jar" is the leader of the seventy-two stunts of Shaolin, since the East spread to the Middle Earth, there have been many Central Plains masters to study, but because this kung fu is too profound, the vast majority of them can only practice layer by layer according to the script, and it is difficult to get out of its original trap.
However, when the Taizu of the Yu Dynasty and the heroes were competing with each other, there was a Mr. Qing, who was well versed in Buddhism and Central Plains medicine, and integrated the "Thirteen Taibao Horizontal Exercises" and "Golden Bell Jar" into one to synthesize a stunt.
Li Xu compared the pictures on the copper plate according to the text description on the page of the copper plate, and felt more and more that this Mr. Qing was really a pedantic genius. It turns out that according to the original intention of the kung fu of "Golden Bell Jar", it is necessary to cultivate the true qi in seven different places of the body according to the theory of the three veins and seven chakras of Tianzhu, and use the three different meridians on the left, middle and right to exercise the internal force. And Mr. Qing thinks that Tianzhu's doctrine is more subtle in cultivating true qi than the traditional martial arts of the Central Plains that simply pays attention to the condensation of dantian.
Tianzhu's so-called seven wheels, three rounds are located between the eyebrows of the mind and the throat, one is in the middle of the heart, and three rounds are located near the lower dantian. That Mr. Qing believed that the traditional Central Plains martial arts brewed true qi in the lower dantian, calling it the sea of qi, and the left and right of the brain palace were used as a place to nourish the gods. Tianzhu Kung Fu is not out of the machine, and it contains true qi in the brain palace and in the chest and abdomen, and there are two more dantian than the Central Plains martial arts. However, the meridians are too coarse, only the left, middle and right three veins, and the luck of the true qi is far inferior to the Central Plains martial arts, which has twelve canons and eight veins of the strange meridians.
Therefore, Tianzhu martial arts are often mellow and have excellent internal strength, but they cannot be compared with the Central Plains martial arts. Tianzhu martial arts, as if training yourself into a big stone, although others can't chisel you, you want to hurt people but are slightly insufficient. And the Central Plains martial arts seems to cast people into a sharp sword, hurting people enough, but it is difficult to hold itself.
This is Mr. Qing's simple distinction, and he also pointed out in the article that the martial arts of the lower heavens are as vast as a sea of smoke, each with its own uniqueness, and he is only talking about it in generalities, and he cannot think that the martial arts in the world are like this. Mr. Qing also mentions in the frontispiece that he has heard that there are other great powers in the Western Regions and the western Turkic regions, such as Persia, Dashi, Tiaozhi, Daqin, Anxi, and Kushan. Since Tianzhu martial arts still has complementary benefits to the Central Plains, he hopes that the latecomers can go to these foreign countries to seek techniques that can supplement the Central Plains martial arts in the local martial arts, and raise the Central Plains martial arts to a higher height. ,
With such insight, it is no wonder that the two unique learnings of "Thirteen Taibao Horizontal Exercises" and "Golden Bell Jar" can be integrated. "Thirteen Taibao Heng Lian" is the top grade in the Central Plains hard work, in the practice to prepare different pills and ointments, pills to adjust the body's functions to enhance the resistance to blows, ointment external use to change the body's original soft nature, increase the strength of bones and muscles. Mr. Qing thought that this method would work quickly, and that he could get twice the result with half the effort with the help of these external forces of the elixir ointment, but there was a layer of separation in the luck of the wish.
What's more, with external forces, the foundation is unstable, and it is very easy to be restrained by the other party's subtle internal force when you meet an internal master.
The "Golden Bell Jar" is too complicated to practice, it is necessary to store the true qi in the body to the extreme majesty, and then disperse it in the seven rounds, and when dispersing and storing, it is necessary to carefully control the true qi of each round, which is called "sealing", if there is a difference in the nature and quantity of the true qi stored in each round, then it cannot be regarded as a success, and it will leave a great hidden danger.
It is already very difficult to cultivate the true qi to the extremely majestic realm, and it is even more difficult to talk about the true qi in the seven rounds to the harmonious realm. Therefore, even if some people practice the "Golden Bell Jar", because the true qi stored during the "closure" is not harmonious, it will also leave a huge cover door, which is easy to be taken advantage of by the enemy.
In order to integrate these two skills, Mr. Qing put the solution above the true qi.
Since ancient times, no matter which school it is, it has regarded true qi as the first priority in cultivation, but there is no consensus on what true qi is. It seems that everyone knows that martial arts rely on true qi, but no one explores what kind of thing true qi is.
This Qing gentleman, who was the same age as Taizu of the Yu Dynasty, thought that true qi was a formless and qualitative thing that seemed to exist and nothing, and in fact there was no true qi. Reading this, Li Xu knew why Yu Fuguo didn't want to read the martial arts classics left by other grandmasters. After all, the Tao is not the same, and the martial arts of a lifetime have been practiced, and with the power of true qi, they can fly to the sky and transmit sound through the air, and they can also ignite fire with their bare hands to defeat thousands of troops, and now someone suddenly tells you that there is no true qi in this world, of course they will scoff at it.
Even when Li Xu saw this, he began to wonder if the Taizu of the Yu Dynasty was dizzy, the existence of true qi is almost the foundation of martial arts in the world, and his old man actually stored this book that denies true qi in the treasure house, he was not dizzy.
However, Mr. Qing's next record made Li Xu have to admire that this predecessor is indeed extraordinary, and he really has the demeanor of a mad scientist.
Mr. Qing said that he liked the study of learning from things since he was a child, and he once discussed the basis of the existence of all things. After the research of his old man's parents, he discovered that the basis of the existence of everything in this world has weight. For example, the air that people breathe and breathe every day has weight, not the traditional belief that there is no weight. He had measured the weight of the air.
Mr. Qing once made a giant urn, he first measured the weight of the urn, then filled the urn with water, then measured the weight of the urn filled with water, and finally he poured out the water and weighed the water. Then Mr. Qing found that the weight of the urn filled with water minus the mass of water in the urn was less than the weight of the urn.
Then Mr. Qing made a few more giant urns and tried it again, and he found that this phenomenon was widespread, so he learned that even the air that is invisible to the human eye has its own weight.
Since he thinks that all things have their own weight, Mr. Qing has a bold idea, why not test the weight of true qi? Li Xu seems that this Mr. Qing is probably a great Confucian who pays attention to the "unity of knowledge and action", and he immediately went to do it after he had this idea.
As we all know, the true qi of the master is more than the true qi of the low hand, and the dead have no true qi.
So Mr. Qing's method of measuring the weight of True Qi is very simple, that is, first capture a master alive and let him weigh it, then kill it with his hot hands, and then measure the weight of the corpse to see the gap between the two.
Li Xu can imagine what kind of bloody storm the martial arts was at that time, the masters were inexplicably abducted and killed, and before they died, they had to be ashamed to let the family weigh themselves, I don't know if there were plump female masters who committed suicide in anger at that time.
After extensive experimentation, Mr. Qing found that the weight of the master before and after death did not change much, even for those bald donkeys who were known for their true strength and profundity. So Mr. Qing boldly came to a conclusion that true qi has no weight.
Since true qi has no weight, then according to Mr. Qing's simple worldview, then he concluded that true qi does not exist.
In order to test his theory, he took the opportunity to integrate "Thirteen Taibao Henglian" and "Golden Bell Jar". Mr. Qing thought that since the true qi did not exist, there was no need to store the true qi in the dantian and chakras. And since true qi does not exist, then the operation of true qi does not need to be dependent on the meridians.
After revising the "Thirteen Taibao Horizontal Exercises", Mr. Qing also revised the practice method of "Golden Bell Jar" according to his own theory, storing the true qi in every corner of the human body's limbs, and the trajectory of the true qi was explored by himself. And when cultivating, he imitated the method of stimulating the viscera and muscles of the "Thirteen Taibao Horizontal Exercises", and replaced the elixir and ointment with true qi.
Mr. Qing is also a master who is not afraid of accidents, and he uses himself as an experiment to practice this set of kung fu. As a result, in less than three years, the golden bell jar was practiced to the ninth level, and each level was sealed to the best. According to his old man's words, "entering the country for thousands of miles in a day, hating the past days, encircling and suppressing all kinds of poisonous schemes, and Mo Nai and I." Obviously, it was a great success. Otherwise, according to the degree of death of his old man, I am afraid that he would have been stabbed through the enemies who had formed because of the experiment.
The success of "The Thirteen Taibao Henglian Golden Bell Jar" undoubtedly proves that Mr. Qing's conjecture is correct, and the true qi can indeed be separated from the dantian and meridians. However, it cannot explain the way in which true qi acts on all things in the world, giving people the ability to transcend common sense.
At the end, Mr. Qing said that he would continue to work hard to die and strive to study the essence of true qi as soon as possible, and then further elaborate the truth of the existence and operation of all things in the universe.
Li Xu currently doesn't have the kung fu to learn the spirit of exploration of this martial arts senior, but he really can't help but practice the mastery left by this senior.
He first read through the paintings and words on the thirteen copper plates, and then began to cultivate according to the images on them. For example, in the first picture, he sits cross-legged on his knees, compares his hands to the number six, and rests his thumbs on his temples, imagining that a stream of true qi rises from the tips of the little fingers of the left and right hands and flows through the arms to the soles of the feet.
Li Xu posed for such an old cow to participate in Zen, and then after a while, he felt a cool air rising from his little finger, as if a big snake was clinging to his arm, and a cool and cool feeling swam all over his body, as if hiding in an air-conditioned room in the hot summer and eating iced watermelon with iced Coke and enjoying the pedestrians on the side of the road who were roasted by the sun.
Li Xu couldn't hold back his curiosity about this trick, and tried the postures on the thirteen pictures one by one, and the nature of the true qi in each picture was different, some were numb and indescribably like an electric shock, some were warm and natural like a spring breeze, and some seemed to have a warm stove burning in their bodies.
Perhaps Cardinal Wanhua can indeed select the most suitable martial arts for the people, this "Thirteen Taibao Henglian Golden Bell Jar" is really very good for Li Xu's spleen, he has practiced these thirteen pictures repeatedly, and he didn't know that the butter candles in the hall had already burned out, and it was not until Cheng Qili reminded him loudly outside the hall that he realized that the sun had set at this moment.
Li Xu reluctantly woke up Cardinal Wanhua, put back the copper plate that recorded the "Thirteen Taibao Henglian Golden Bell Jar", and then looked at the iron guy and the surrounding bookshelves reluctant to leave, he secretly decided that sooner or later he would see all the miraculous skills here.